Nuno Espirito Santo has explained his on-pitch confrontation with Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis. Tricky Trees boss Nuno was angrily approached by Marinakis after a 2-2 draw at home to relegated Leicester City dented his side’s hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.
He told Match of the Day: “Football is emotions. Today there were more than 30,000 people in the ground with their own emotions. It was a tough moment, after the situation with [Taiwo Awoniyi] we had one man less after a misunderstanding. It’s difficult to control emotions when we had so much expectation on a day like this.
“It was because of that [Awoniyi situation]. It was a misunderstanding, a miscommunication. I’m sorry, I cannot go much further. It’s based on emotions, you cannot make a big deal out of it. It happens and it will happen again. With the emotions today, it’s understandable.”
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